Marcel works for a publisher of
multimedia primary education @ Noordhoff Uitgevers ('Uitgevers'
means Publishers), based in Houten, The Netherlands. He
has a passion for learning, writes a personal blog in
Dutch about learning:
www.leerbeleving.nl and is editor of
the Dutch portal
www.e-learning.nl.
Marcel's Top 10 Tools as at 7 September
2008
WordPress
Makes publishing easy and convenient. Offers me the
opportunity to focus on the content of blog post instead of
technology. Clean interface and lots of possibilities to
tune the environment the way you want.
Google Reader
I tried a lot of RSS-readers but this one is my favourite.
easy to maintain your subscriptions, great sharing options
and fast. This is the tool I used most frequently.
Moodle
Every time I use the environment with learners I experience
the quality and the many options of this learning
environment. I like the didactical ideas behind the
environment and if it matching your own model it will be a
winner! Powerful learning experiences are within the reach
of every creative learning designer and learner.
MindMeister
Mindmapping is a very powerful methodology for structuring
your own ideas but also within workshops it can be a strong
tool for both learners and trainers. MindMeister is a basic
online tool. It stands out because of the clean and crispy
interface, the excellent sharing options (share it really
the way you want) and the user centric and personal service.
MindMeister helps me to keep all the information in my head
organized.
Twitter
Although it seems to be a playfull tool with also a lot of
irrelevant messages it is a nice way to stay in touch with
other professionals and to get fast responses to your
learning questions. I also get a lot of new insights from
other people messages (with news, interesting sites, new
developments etc.).
FireFox
Fast and stable browser with all the add-ons to create a
powerful learning environment and to experience the web to
it's full extend.
eXe
Very basic application to create webbased training modules.
SCORM-compliant with enough pre-defined didactical
interactions. Not a very professional application yet but a
nice tool for organizations to explore the possibilities of
e-Learning.
Delicious
Good way to keep up with all the websites and to manage
them. Not spectacular and I rarely use the community options
but convenient.
iTunes
I'm addicted to podcasts and vodcasts and iTunes is a easy
way to get access to them. Fast enough and a nice way of
presenting the library. You can find so many educational
podcast that only the timefactor is holding you back from
learning all day long.
Piclens
Add-on to FireFox and Internet Explorer. Offers me a fast
way to explore images and videos from e.g. Flickr and
YouTube. I often use these for learning materials and
PicLens helps me with accessing these sites more intuitive,
it gives me the energy to carry on because you can browse
the collections more efficient.
